Mr. Tim Gaston:

The level of collaboration on this is on a scale not seen before in Dublin because the project is of a scale not seen before in Dublin. We need to remember that we are changing every route in the city over the next couple of years. Myself, Mr. Rogan and colleagues from Go-Ahead meet on a fortnightly, if not weekly, basis. Project teams reporting to us meet every second or third day, particularly in the run-up to the introduction, to make sure everything is in place.

Regarding longer-term planning, we are trying to get the balance right between having adequate numbers of drivers to do the day job and the normal service that is running and bringing in the new services. Unfortunately, this year, we have had to move phases 3 and 4 back significantly and move phase 5 to next year - only because we do not have sufficient numbers of drivers in the network and it is wrong to put something new in if we have to rob the ongoing normal service. It is very collaborative. We have a joint project team that meets all three parties together - Go-Ahead, Dublin Bus and ourselves - on regular basis.